NEW BOOK FROM HUMMING EARTH (IMPRINT OF ZETICULA Ltd)
Lord Byron and Discourses of Otherness: Scotland, Italy, and Femininity
by Gioia Angeletti
167 pp. ISBN 978-1-84622-038-8
Multiple forms and discourses of otherness emerge in Byron’s life and writing. This book
focuses on three of them – Scotland, Italy, and femininity – and on how these discourses
cannot be understood outside the poet’s own mobility of character and multifaceted
personality. In particular, this book studies Byron’s complex relationship with Italian
otherness – place, culture, and people (mainly female) – and his wavering position vis-à-vis
the English and Scottish Self. In Byron’s life and works Scotland and Scottish literature shift
from the position of the Self to that of the Other depending on where the poet locates himself
in relation to his homeland. From 1816 to 1823, Byron established a complex relationship
with Italian otherness: Italy is the Other opposed to the English Self, but it may also figure as
a set of images onto which Byron projects his own anxiety concerning England. Byron’s
Italian women are the feminine Other outside his Self that he would like to assimilate. As
another constant discourse of otherness in Byron’s life and works, femininity is strictly
connected with his sexual politics and libertarian ideology. Yet the book also shows how
Byron himself can become the object of otherness through different forms of ‘translation’:
Caroline Lamb’s parodic rewriting of Don Juan; and Andrea Maffei’s Italian translations.
Available from http://www.hummingearth.com/biblio/1846220386.htm
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